Excerpt from The Virgin's Bower, Clematis: Climbing Kinds and Their Culture at Gravetye Manor The Clematises are the most graceful of the flowers that garland the northern earth and the garden if we will allow them but beautiful as they are and many as they are, and gracefully varied, they are rarely well seen in gardens, owing to disease or some fatality. Always impressed by their beauty, and, not content with being beaten, I tried to get out of their troubles in various ways, and succeeded so far that last year we gathered something like thirty kinds of Wild and cultivated species in one day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.